Which is longer, the service or Beardown's confession?

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Friday night Mike North invited every CSW employee over to his house...and he handed each one of them a paycheck that he wrote from his personal bank account, to make up for the bounced payroll checks from Hernandez.
This news must really upset the Mike North haters here who claim that he is selfish and doesnt care about others.
North should be commended for his actions.

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And you know this how?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

It was in Mark Konkol's Sun-Times article.

That was indeed a valiant move on North's part after having sold these people a bill of goods.

Hernandez is clearly the immediate bad guy but North should have done his due diligence on the guy before dragging all of these people into this. Problem is North is an idiot. He doesn't do due diligence. He doesn't understand business. He is stupid. All of that is exacerbated by his ego and attitude that he knows all that and more.

Nice move on North's part to fork over a few bucks to the truly injured parties. But in the grand scheme of things, too little too late. He has done more harm than good for those folks.

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"I still think its a tremendous idea".
"It's my baby".

Wow. Spot on. I am not a Mike North fan by any means, but people that care enough about Sports Radio to post on a Chicago Sports Radio site celebrating around 20 people losing their job talking about sports is, I don't know, interesting. There are some people on this board that would be doing society a favor by going away.

I never went to Webio, and really wasn't interested. But the people laughing at its failure, for the most part, are people that have never had the balls to go out and try to be a success. They sit in front of a computer saying people are going to fail, hoping they will be right. It's because in general, they are a failure. In many ways. To a few people on this board, yes you, go look in the mirror before you type again.

Best of luck to the good guys that will be looking for work because of this mess.

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FBI probe focuses on North sponsor
SPORTS-TALK RIFT | Feds search firm owned by broadcaster's estranged partner
June 14, 2009
BY MARK J. KONKOL Staff Reporter

A rift between flamboyant Chicago sports commentator Mike North and his estranged business partner, David Hernandez, took a turn Saturday when the FBI confirmed it's investigating a Hernandez company.

The firm, NextStep Medical Staffing, is the main sponsor of North's morning talk show on Comcast SportsNet.

On Friday, federal agents executed a search warrant on the offices of NextStep at 225 W. Washington as part of an ongoing federal probe, FBI spokesman Ross Rice said Saturday.

A source close to NextStep said the Securities and Exchange Commission also is investigating the company. An SEC investigator contacted by the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday would neither confirm nor deny the existence of a probe.

Hernandez's Spectrum Entertainment Group owns a majority stake in the sports talk Web site Chicago Sports Webio (www.ChicagoSportsWebio.com), which North helped found last year.

In recent weeks, the Internet-based radio station has bounced paychecks to staff. On Friday, Hernandez fired North as senior vice president. North's wife, Be-Be, the company's chief operating officer, and general sales manager Jeff Schwartz were also fired.

Hernandez denied being the target of any investigation. He confirmed the FBI subpoenaed company records, which he turned over to investigators.

"That happens once a week in Chicago," Hernandez said. "I welcome the federal government investigation and will work with them. . . . We know where it is going to lead."

North dismissed as nonsense Hernandez's take on the warrant.

"The guy is delusional," North said.

North's attorney, Steve Harris, said federal investigators told him North is not "a suspect or a target" of their investigation. The FBI has also asked to question North later this week.

On Friday night, North invited his Chicago Sports Webio co-workers -- including veteran sportscaster Chet Coppock and midday host Jonathan Hood -- to his house, where he gave them checks from his personal bank account to help make up for their lost wages.

"They're all great friends of mine," he said. "We gave them money so they can survive right now despite this [guy]."

North's show "Monsters in the Morning," with Dan Jiggetts and Jen Patterson, airs from 6 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday. A Comcast SportsNet spokesman said the show is still scheduled to air -- with North -- in its normal slot Monday. A special prime-time edition of the show is also scheduled for Monday night in advance of the White Sox-Cubs series.

The spokesman would not comment on whether the show will continue to be sponsored by NextStep Medical Staffing, which has paid for it until mid-July.

But Hernandez claims he was told by Comcast officials that North would be pulled from the program.

"Comcast knows we are in a partnership that's locked in legally until July 12," Hernandez said. "If Mike was no longer [on the show], the partnership will continue. If he is there, that will be a problem."

Chicago Sports Webio isn't the only Hernandez business that has had problems making payments recently. The source associated with the company said investors haven't received expected dividends in months.

North, who writes a weekly sports column for the Sun-Times, said he hopes to get control of Chicago Sports Webio, which was his idea. But Hernandez said North "doesn't have a penny invested" in the company.

"We allowed Mike to be the face, but he was a simple employee," Hernandez said. "Unless he can come up with several million dollars, his comments about taking over are comical."

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Quoted for the motherfuckin' truth!

Seriously, there's a lot more douchebags on this board than I originally gave it credit for...

Oh, by the way. I'm not Mike North or anyone from Webio. I am just someone that does not care for dueche banks.

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See, this is why I don't go to church. Plenty of sermons here to read on this pleasant Sunday.

Without understanding the finances or the complexity of a deal like this, North duped a bunch of supposed "friends", some of them with families and budding careers on the line, into a very risky venture with a guy with finances so shaky he's under an FBI probe now.

Actually, I did run my own business once upon a time for a few years and it didn't make it, so spare me your holier-than-thou bullshit.

And I don't get why people are acting like the posters here were glad everybody at CSW lost their job. Most people went out of their way to post that they felt bad for the people whose checks bounced and were out of jobs, except for North. I never cared if North failed or succeeded, but he's a jerk and Karma's a bitch.

I agree with Drop in, also. I used to like Mike's radio product. But, there was no harsher critic of that product, over the last 5 years, than me. His morning show was a shitfest, plain and simple. It was never personal for me.
As far as the current situation, I will reserve judgment until all the facts come out.

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Once again, here is what big bad Mike North did for the CSW employees...

On Friday night, North invited his Chicago Sports Webio co-workers -- including veteran sportscaster Chet Coppock and midday host Jonathan Hood -- to his house, where he gave them checks from his personal bank account to help make up for their lost wages.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Thank you. I've gone out of my way several times to say I hope all innocent victims who, in a weak moment let the sleazy con-man Mike North get to them, come out of this OK.

Since you owned a business that failed, you must have conned people into coming to work for you...just like Pappy did at CSW, right?

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

For all we know he cut them checks for 10 bucks each "to help them make up for lost wages." Now I'm sure he wrote bigger checks than that, but it's another one-sided half-story.

Funnay how Nort is distancing himself from Hernandez, being the generous guy giving out money to those whose checks bounced.......somethings not right about this.


Somethings telling me Norts just as dirty as Hernandez in this.

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North making it known that he's paying guys out of his pocket could mean 2 things: 1) he's true to his word and is helping out his guys, 2) he's dirty in this and is paying his guys out of guilt. Either way, it's brilliant spin control to be the one w/ the money while Hernandez has mysteriously disappeared.

Or, like just about everyone here, I'm talking out of my ass b/c it's fun to speculate while we wait for actual facts.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -Susan B. Anthony

If Webio continues, who's going to write the next check?

Good-bye, April Rose, though I never knew you at all, you had the grace to hold yourself, while those around you fall.

Let's sing it for her, boys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvux60fqNU8&feature=related

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That's kinda hot.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Put you on the treadmill, while Hernandez bounced your check, they made you into something sexual, something other than our April Rose...All the press had to say was FBI agents busted into Hernandez's office.

Those are fake boobs. She looks a little like Angie Harmon.

+ Danica Patrick

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Of course they are. The best money can buy.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Angie Harmon = good hate fuck.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -Susan B. Anthony

Like Tony Soprano said "It's important to remember the good times." Look how much fun webio once was...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-DT_cGIu28

So if pappy has to testify against DH, will that make him a rat? Hmmmm...

for the record, i hope webio survives, i like a few of the shows.

This is all on Hernandez the more I think about it. Pappy is stupid. That's his crime. He trusted this guy and convinced others to trust him. But they're all big boys. They all made the choice to sign up. For some, like we've said, it was "what the hell" nothing to lose. Some had more to lose.